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by smackmartine » Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:17 pm
Source Test Code 42 SC-17

Released the first Friday of every month and covering the preceding month, the Labor Department's employment report discloses the amount of new jobs to be created during the reporting period and the amount of hours to be worked.
(A) discloses the amount of new jobs to be created during the reporting period and the amount of hours to be worked
(B) discloses the amount of new jobs being created during the reporting period and the amount of hours worked
(C) discloses the number of new jobs created during the reporting period and the number of hours worked
(D) disclosed the number of new jobs that are created during the reporting period and the number of hours being worked
(E) disclosed the number of new jobs that have been created during the reporting period and the number of hours worked

I will post OA after some discussion.
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by geekforu » Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:23 pm
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by atulmangal » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:32 pm
IMO C...

Jobs/Hours ---> countable, hence number should be used...Drop A,B

Op D and Op E...unnecessarily use "that are created" and "that have been created"

In Op C use of "new jobs created" is concise and clear
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by smackmartine » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:17 pm
OA C
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:42 pm
smackmartine wrote:Source Test Code 42 SC-17

Released the first Friday of every month and covering the preceding month, the Labor Department's employment report discloses the amount of new jobs to be created during the reporting period and the amount of hours to be worked.
(A) discloses the amount of new jobs to be created during the reporting period and the amount of hours to be worked
(B) discloses the amount of new jobs being created during the reporting period and the amount of hours worked
(C) discloses the number of new jobs created during the reporting period and the number of hours worked
(D) disclosed the number of new jobs that are created during the reporting period and the number of hours being worked
(E) disclosed the number of new jobs that have been created during the reporting period and the number of hours worked

I will post OA after some discussion.
This question is a great illustration of the power of scan and eliminate, the essence of the Kaplan Method for Sentence Correction.

After reading the sentence once, if nothing jumps out at you, scan the choices looking for differences.

The easiest place to spot a difference is right at the beginning of each choice. Here we see a classic 3-2 split between "discloses" and "disclosed". Since the task is ongoing (happens the first Friday of every month), we want the simple present: eliminate (D) and (E).

Scanning the remaining 3 choices, we see a 2-1 split between "amount of new jobs" and "number of new jobs". Since "new jobs" are countable, "number" is correct: eliminate (A) and (B).

We've only looked at the first few words of each choice, but we've already eliminated 4 choices! We confidently choose (C) and move on to the next question, completely ignoring the rest of the sentence.
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by AIM GMAT » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:45 pm
IMO C .

Spilts keeps C left as stated by experts above :) .
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